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Bailey to reopen email account

Queensland energy minister Mark Bailey has agreed to reactivate his private email account to comply with an investigation into his contact with the Electrical Trades Union.

Mr Bailey deleted his Yahoo account following a January 23 cabinet meeting where Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk instructed her ministers not to use private emails for official business.

That was four days after The Australian newspaper had made a Right to Information request for emails in the account, understood to be from an ETU official discussing a merger of super companies.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has already ordered her director-general to conduct an inquiry into the issue, and Mr Bailey told parliament on Thursday he would reactivate the account so it could be part of that inquiry.

"I have written to the Integrity Commissioner for advice on how best to do that," Mr Bailey said.

Yahoo allows users to reactivate an account within 90 days of its deletion.

Opposition Leader Tim Nicholls then used question time to press Mr Bailey on whether he could guarantee if all the emails would still be in the account, to which the main roads minister said he was getting advice that.

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It's understood there were emails in the Yahoo account from Mr Bailey's staff, which he attempted to defuse on Thursday by tabling documents showing the information discussed was also publicly available.

Deputy LNP Leader Deb Frecklington asked whether Mr Bailey's staff had known about the RTI request before he deleted the account.

Mr Bailey said he "wasn't a mind reader" but agreed to ask them and report back by the end of Thursday.

The minister then took to Twitter to post images of emails sent by opposition MPs from private email accounts in an effort to throw the issue back at the other side.